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A £3bn rescue loan for Thames Water can proceed, the Court of Appeal has ruled – allowing the troubled company to stave off temporary nationalisation. The debt-laden water giant secured the cash ...
Thames Water is seeking to line up CK Infrastructure Holdings as a potential buyer for the utility if it is pushed into special administration following an appeal in a London court this week ...
The Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority (LTVCA) says flooding is possible over the next several days. A flood watch is in effect until Tuesday, March 11. Officials say municipalities ...
Crisis hit Thames Water was accused of being “blatantly greedy” after claiming a 35% price hike for customers was not enough. The debt-ridden supplier has launched an appeal against the ...
THE note on the Thames flood of 1928 (NATURE, Jan. 4, p. 32) is of the very greatest topical interest, for not only have the very greatest topical interest, for not only have the recent December ...
"I will continue to raise flood and the many other risks associated with Thames Water’s proposal with the relevant ministers and repeat my request for a meeting with the Secretary of State and ...
There are plans to raise the flood walls and defences alongside the River Thames downriver by 50cm by 2040 and then expand this through central London by 2050. A decision on what to do with the ...
Flood defence walls through London will need to be half a metre higher in the future to protect against climate change, officials said as they marked the 40th anniversary of the Thames Barrier.
It is one of the largest movable flood defence barriers ... London was severely flooded was in 1928, when 14 people were drowned. A huge tidal surge in the Thames estuary in 1953 caused 300ft ...